Is Hollywood enabling the sexual abuse of child stars? According to at least one former child star, the answer is yes. In a (paywalled) interview with the Sunday Times, Elijah Wood claims that organized child abuse is common practice in the film industry, and that it is covered up by powerful industry figures. Best known for playing Frodo in Peter Jackson’s Lord […]
My boyfriend Nick and I have been together for almost 10 years, but that doesn’t mean I’ve stopped looking for love advice or claim to know any secrets. To the contrary, I’m constantly on the hunt for inspiration, insight, and practical wisdom. I love asking long-term couples how they’ve managed to stay together for so […]
The whole wide entertainment world seemed to stop Tuesday when news broke that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were divorcing. There were rumors of an affair and the usual Hollywood gossip, but now that Brad Pitt is reportedly being investigated for child abuse, it sounds like there might have been more trouble in their paradise […]
As John Oliver noted on this Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight,” child labor and sweatshop labor in general used to be a huge deal. Kathie Lee Gifford got in a huge pile of trouble back in the ’90s when it was discovered that her clothing line was being manufactured by children in overseas sweatshops. These days, […]
Our interpretations of art tend to reflect what’s going on with us internally, which is extremely telling for the nursery staff that accused a 4-year-old of extremist radicalization, after they assumed his drawing of his dad cutting a cucumber actually depicted his dad handling a “cooker bomb.” Located in Luton, England, the nursery staff apparently started suspecting […]
Today in “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”: Sharon Green, a very holy mother in the UK, is very upset over a teddy bear on her daughter’s christening cake. Why, you ask? Because it has a crease on it that she believes looks like genitalia. Which, um, I guess if you squint? I don’t know. […]
Ugh ugh ugh, it just keeps getting worse. A new police report obtained by In Touch from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office reveals further details about Josh Duggar’s molestation confession when he was a teenager. This police report features fewer redactions than the previous report, and indicates that Josh actually confessed three times between March […]
This post isn’t about Lena Dunham… really. So many others, including The Frisky’s own Amelia, have written about Dunham, her book, and the passages about her sister that have led to claims of molestation. But, I’m writing this because of the conversation that’s currently being had about Lena Dunham, so we can’t not talk about […]
Back in 2000, Jessica Biel, then starring as eldest daughter Mary Camden on TV’s “7th Heaven”, made waves by appearing on the cover of men’s magazine Gear in just a pair of panties, with her arm draped across her bare chest, covering her nipples. Given the “family-friendly” tenor of the religious-leaning show, this magazine spread was a big […]
